IT Digest: Amazon Unveils Coin, Facebook Celebrates 9th Anniversary, Browser Trends for February 2013 and Much More

What is the freshest news from the world of informational technologies? Find out in our weekly digest from the 08th of February.

News:

Russia?s Yandex overtakes Microsoft in worldwide search ? Russian search engine Yandex has overtaken Microsoft’s Bing, and appeared to be the fourth in the world search engines list. According to statistics, Yandex once already overtook its rival in November ? December 2012 being behind the top three leaders, namely Google, Baidu and Yahoo.

Amazon unveils Coin, its own virtual currency ? differentiating the Kindle Fire from other Android tablets, Amazon has introduced Amazon Coins, a new virtual currency for purchasing apps on the Kindle Fire starting from May 2013. It is available for the US customers only.

Twitter says hackers compromise 250K accounts. According to Twitter’s director of security, Bob Lord, the attack was not just occasional, and it was not an isolated deal. The attackers were extremely sophisticated. Twitter users are advised to turn off Java in their browsers and use unique passwords composed of symbols, numbers, upper and lower case letters.

Surface Pro lands at Microsoft Store ? Surface Pro tablet is already on sale, while Microsoft has promised to start its selling on February 9. From Saturday the device can be purchased in Microsoft Store. Moreover, Surface Pro has also been noticed in Best Buy where the tablet is planned to be sold not earlier than on the same Saturday.

Wine on Android is coming for running Windows apps ? Wine or WINdows Emulator is an open source application that allows apps designed for Windows to run on Unix OS (Linux, OS X, FreeBSD, and Solaris). The project features the software library Winelib, against which Windows apps can be compiled.

Alex is a Team Lead of front-end developers at Zfort Group. He is a skillful web designer and front-end developer. Alex is passionate about technologies, travelling, photography, football, foreign languages and his family.

Alex is a senior front-end developer with strong experience in the web standards, CSS/HTML and everything that is connected with those. His hobbies coincide with his work. In his free time he writes his own blog.